{"id":29379,"date":"2017-02-01T14:11:29","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T22:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=29379"},"modified":"2017-02-01T14:11:29","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T22:11:29","slug":"principles-in-a-world-of-realpolitik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/01\/principles-in-a-world-of-realpolitik\/","title":{"rendered":"Principles in a world of Realpolitik<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over at the Cabal, but in the public area where anyone can read, I just posted a longish think piece (as in thinking-out-loud piece) on “Principles in a world of Realpolitik<\/em><\/a>. It focuses on how applying libertarian principles immediately<\/em> to the real world sometimes works (or would work) brilliantly well, but sometimes would lead to disaster. <\/p>\n

As I say, I am just thinking aloud and I’ll welcome comments, including spirited disagreements, here or at the Cabal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The subject of principles came up here in a couple of recent threads. The subject of principles comes up a lot around serious freedomistas of course. And it doesn’t always come up comfortably. Case in point: immigration.<\/p>\n

In theory, I believe in open borders. In Libertopian Neverland, there would be open borders. Or to put it more clearly, there would be no national borders, while groups of property-owning voluntaryists would be free to fence off any tracts of land that they happened to own, and fence them off so thoroughly that they could freely deny access to anybody they wished.<\/p>\n

But here, in the real world, I find myself thinking more along the lines of, “Nations and their borders exist. Some of the people of these nations hate the hell out of each other, and some of those people would like to cross borders to do harm. Or they harmlessly cross borders but raise their children in culturally benighted enclaves that breed cruelty, religious savagery, and acts of terror against the innocent.” Obama allowed, even encouraged, this problem to become much worse, and to whatever extent such a thing as a national interest exists, the U.S. government has long let down its own people when it comes to immigration issues (and trade, which I’ll get back to in a minute).<\/p>\n

In this world, as it presently exists, I see no way to say, “Open the borders and let everybody in.” But I also recognize that my position isn’t “pure” in anarchist terms.<\/p>\n

At the same time, I’ve tsk-tsked about people who have forgotten their libertarian principles on a related issue: how Trump is handling this long-neglected immigration issue: with unconstitutional executive orders. I shake my head that people who ought to know better don’t recognize that the dictator you like eventually gives way to the dictator you don’t like, and you shouldn’t excuse either dictator for using the same tools.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Continues in that vein …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over at the Cabal, but in the public area where anyone can read, I just posted a longish think piece (as in thinking-out-loud piece) on “Principles in a world of Realpolitik. It focuses on how applying libertarian principles immediately to the real world sometimes works (or would work) brilliantly well, but sometimes would lead to disaster. As I say, I am just thinking aloud and I’ll welcome comments, including spirited disagreements, here or at the Cabal. The subject of principles came up here in a couple of recent threads. The subject of principles comes up a lot around serious freedomistas…<\/p>\n

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